I had a great discussion over dinner last night with Randy Covington, the director of Newsplex. Newsplex is a prototype advanced micro-newsroom for demonstration, training and research in next-generation newshandling tools and techniques run by an international newspaper association and the University of South Carolina.

We talked about how news reporting changed when citizen journalists flooded the BBC's inbox with phonecam coverage of the London bombings.

Randy talked about Newsplex's Election Moblog hosted by TextAmerica and his visit to South Korea's Ubiquitous Dream Hall. There is some explosive growth in internet usage over there.

The launch of Mobile ESPN during the Super Bowl is a development we agreed was significant. CNN has a review of the service.

More on Newsplex's projects can be found in their Convergence Newsletter

- mike lee - from yesterday in washington, dc